Negotiators from the United States, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and Hamas meet in Cairo on Sunday. US President Joe Biden called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to reach an agreement on the hostages’ kidnapped during the Hamas attack.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Saturday that the army was fighting a "difficult war" to bring back all the hostages. Israeli opposition leader Yaïr Lapid left on Saturday for Washington to meet senior American leaders, against a backdrop of tensions over the conduct of the war.